Improved skipping-rope



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

,JOHN E. ortoss, oF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

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Specification forming part oflnetters Patent No. 85.514. dated January 5, 11:'69; antedated December 19, 1868.

To ail uhom Yit may concern: l

Be it known that I, JOHN R. Guess, a citizen of the United States, ofthe city ot'thicag'o,

, in the State ol Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Making an Improved Skipping tope, for the anulsement and exercise ot' children or grown persons, whereby a uniform motion is communicated to the skipping-rope by the use ol" india-rubber, wood, ivory, bone, glass, or lea-d balls attached to the rope at such distances from the handles (which are attached to each end of the skipping-rope) as shall, by their '-veight, cause the middle section of the skipping-rope to assume a horizontal position when in motion, so'that the skirts ot' girls will not strike or rub against the two lateral sections ofthe rope, as shown in the accompanying drawing herewith submitted, and forming a part of this specification. A

a a represent the handles.v b b b represent the several sections of the skipping-rope; e c, the balls, secured in anyconveuient manner,

so as to be easily movedt-J a point near` to or remote from the handles, as may be required, and ually fastened in the position desired.

l think the best method is a rubber ball, otl

sufficient size to give the proper weight, with the purposes set forth. Y

JOHN R. CROSS.

Vitnesses J. M. MARSHALL, E. T. CLACKET. 

